Surface decorating



cHmsTIAN r. EMIG, or SANTA CLARA, cALIroRNIA.

SURFACE DECORATING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN F. EMIG, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Santa Clara, in the county of Santa Clara and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSurfaceDecorating, of which the following is a specification. v

My invention relates to the art of decorating surfaces and to a specificproduct of that art.

In the decorative arts it is frequently desirable to providea pile ornap surfacing, and this is ordinarily done by covering the said surfacewith suitable cloth. If, however, the surface is irregular the finergradations are obliterated by the cloth covering and the highlyirregular portions, and especiall undercut portions, are covered with diculty thereby rendering the process laborious and expensive and somewhatunsatisfactory when completed owing to unavoidable folds and creases.

It is the obj ect of my invention to provide a suitable pile or napsurfacing upon any desired surface, however irregular it may be withoutresulting folds or creases, without losing or materially diminishing thefiner gradations, and with a minimum of expense both as to labor andmaterial.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of a molded surface to illustratethe application of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In illustrating the application of my invention I make specificreference to its use when applied to a burial casket, since such anarticle usually has a more or less 1rregular and ornamented surface,partly in high relief, and yet must, in many cases, be produced at thelowest possible cost. There are also periods at which caskets must beproduced quickly in large numbers. A fixed custom requires that theymust be finished with a pile or nap surfacing to give the necessarysoftness of texture, and therefore my invention is peculiarly adaptedfor this purpose, as it provides the required surface quickly andcheaply.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 indicates a portion of a casket carvedwith certain portions 2 in high relief, portions 3 in finished casket isto be gray, then the whole surface is covered with a coat of suitablegray paint, the same being allowed to dry hard. When dry a coat ofvarnish suitably colored with gray paint is applied and allowed to standuntil it becomes tacky. A quantity of suitably colored wool having beenprepared by reducing the same to a mass of exceedingly short filaments,somewhat uniform in length, the same is blown or otherwise depositedupon the tacky surface in such a manner as to completely cover the same.The surplus wool now being removed it will be found that not only arethe prominent surfaces covered but the undercut portions 5 and corners 6are smoothly and uniformly covered, and the portions in low relief as at3 appear distinctly to the point of merging with surface 4, the wholepresenting a smooth, uniform, soft surface with a texture closelyresembling that of a finely woven fabric carefully applied and withoutlaps or creases. The whole process requires but a fraction of the timerequired by the application of fabric and gives a re sult superior tothat obtained by the use of the fabric itself. The sizing is colored thesame as the material placed thereon in order to render possiblescratches less visible.

It is understood that while I have herein set forth one. specific methodof'preparing a given surface for the reception of a given finish, thatany given surface may be sized in any suitable manner to properly retainafinishing of any desired fibrillose material such as may be obtained'by shredding and cutting or otherwise reducing wool, silk,

cotton, flax, hemp, wood-pulp, etc., to the desired fibrillosecondition.

color as said paint and varnish before said varnish is dry.

Executed this 12th .day of May, 1919 CHRISTIAN F. EMIG.

